TUC8-114
Grossular Garnet Var. Hessonite With Diopside
Ala, Piedmont, Italy
Small Cabinet, 7.7 x 6.1 x 4.1 cm
SOLD
From the alpine veins of Val d'Ala, this classic matrix specimen is covered in glassy and gemmy, cinnamon-colored grossular garnets, to .8 cm across. They are SPARKLING and beautiful! Associated with the garnets are a few glassy and gemmy, pastel green, diopside crystals, to 1.0 cm in length. The dark green mineral underlaying the garnet is clinochlore, a member of the mica family, in crystals to.3 cm across. Obviously, this is an older specimen. It comes from the Robert Gage collection (dated 1926), whose collection partly went into the later collection of Robert Linck.